Jan 30 2010
Thai Beef Salad
We were inspired to make Thai Beef Salad after having a homemade version at our friend’s sister’s house. It’s a wonderful combination of flavors – tangy from the lime juice, spicy from the hot chili sauce, salty from the fish sauce, mild and refreshing crunch from the cucumbers and carrots, and of course hearty from the beef! We should have asked for her recipe when she made it for us, but instead we decided to piece it together by what we remembered. It was such a great snack that we thought we ought to share it with you guys!
In a bowl, we combined 1/2 sliced red onion, 1 minced garlic clove, 1 grated carrot, and 1 sliced cucumber.
We used 5 oz. of flap meat which we cooked and browned in the pan. This gets sliced into bite-sized pieces.
Add the sliced flap meat and about 1/2 cup of cilantro. Mix all the ingredients together in the bowl and add 1 tbsp of fish sauce, 1 tbsp chili garlic sauce, and the juice of 2 limes. If you want it less spicy, use less chili sauce. You can also chop up fresh Thai chili if you can handle the heat! Marinate this salad overnight to obtain the best flavors.
These are not hard-to-find ingredients, so preparing Thai Beef Salad is much easier than you think. It is refreshing, fulfilling, and will leave you wanting more.
I love Thai beef salad. Got any leftovers for me when I come by?
looking very yummy! love the flavours of a good thai beef salad
we always get some this type of salad or either larb when we do thai..this looks great
Love the colour and flavour combination. I can have this for lunch and dinner….yum
This looks fantastic – my favorite flavors! Do you know if flap meat goes by a different name? I don’t think I’ve seen that in my local store.
This looks delicious! I love Thai flavors.
I love how fresh the salad looks even with cooked beef! Lovely.
Oh yes, this is very much something I’d adore munching on! Yum!
We love Thai food around here. In fact, we just had some last night. The bf is a huge meat lover so I think I’ll have to be a good little girlfriend and make this for him.
Hi Cookin’ Canuck – sorry I didn’t respond earlier about your question! Flap meat is also known as skirt steak. Just a thin piece of meat. We buy our flap meat at Costco in bulk, so we put them in small ziploc bags and freeze them. It’s nice when we need some beef for a recipe – like this Thai Beef Salad!
YUM. we always order beef salad whenever we eat out at a Thai restaurant…guess next time, we’ll eat in for it!
It looks so inviting & yummy. I’ve just bought a bottle of fish sauce just to make beef salad recently ^_^
your salad make my husband hungry…he said are you going to make this (he loves Thai food alot) after you let me see all those wonderful looking dishes.
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I just made this yesterday and follow your instruction to the tee and the salad came out tasting pretty bland compare to the Thai salad I tasted from the restaurant. Is there something I’m missing?